Michael Miller
Could a Nursing Home Be in Your Future?
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This is a book about nursing homes and aging. It is an attempt by this author to bring to light some of his observations and his personal experiences in a number of nursing homes environments. Mr. Miller, as both a floor nurse and a teacher, has been a keen observer of the care that is disseminated in a number of nursing homes. His book describes in detail several vivid accounts of inadequate, careless, negligent, and abusive care he has witnessed in some of those nursing homes. The author cites such examples as perpetual staffing shortages, an inadequate pay scale, a high turn-over rate, mandated overtime, extremely…
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This is a book about nursing homes and aging. It is an attempt by this author to bring to light some of his observations and his personal experiences in a number of nursing homes environments. Mr. Miller, as both a floor nurse and a teacher, has been a keen observer of the care that is disseminated in a number of nursing homes. His book describes in detail several vivid accounts of inadequate, careless, negligent, and abusive care he has witnessed in some of those nursing homes. The author cites such examples as perpetual staffing shortages, an inadequate pay scale, a high turn-over rate, mandated overtime, extremely high job stress, physically and emotionally demanding work, and an inherent risk of disease transmission as the leading causes of a lack of proper care. Not only do many nursing home residents receive sub-standard care, but innumerable members of our elderly population become increasingly alienated from the mainstream. The view of the elderly is, to a great extent, that they are much less productive then the rest of us and therefore, less valuable members of this society. Our popular culture glamorizes youth and demonizes old age. There is a cultural antipathy toward aging in this country and as a result, countless folks feel pressured to do whatever they can to try to slow down the process. The author also broaches end of life issues. There are two opposing forces, he states. On the one hand is medical technology and on the other is the view that the cessation of quality of life is equated with the end of life. Finally, Mr. Miller depicts and overall societal dereliction of responsibility in caring for the elderly. Many elderly find themselves at the end of their lives facing loneliness, no support system, and abandonment by friends and family. The author questions who will take care of any of us when our time of needs comes.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4208-2531-2
- EAN: 9781420825312
- Produktnummer: 1537233
- Verlag: Authorhouse
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 92 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D0.5 cm 109 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 109
Über den Autor
Michael Miller has published nine collections of poems, the most recent of which is Waking In The Dark. His first book The Joyful Dark, was the Editor's Choice winner of The McGovern Prize at Ashland Poetry Press. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The New Republic, The American Scholar, Ontario Review, The Southern Review, Raritan, and The Yale Review. His poem, The Different War, was the 2014 First Prize Winner of the W.B. Yeats Society Poetry Award and was anthologized in Yeats 150 (Lilliput Press, Dublin). Born in 1940, Michael Miller lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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